It’s 95 degrees Fahrenheit — 35 Celsius — or at least it feels like it. I’m standing in the middle of Times Square, looking at my phone at an augmented-reality fleet of boats floating above my head. My phone is hot. I can’t hear through the earphones well. A crowd of family tourists nearly collides …
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Apple explicitly told CNET that though its 2018 MacBook Pro comes with a new third-generation “butterfly switch” keyboard, it didn’t do any new engineering or tweaks to prevent the dreaded “sticky key” issue that’s sparked multiple lawsuits and a free Apple repair program over the past few months. But gadget repair and teardown site iFixit has evidence that Apple may have actually …
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Surprise! Apple released new MacBooks on Thursday. Maybe you were expecting something affordable, something with Face ID, something with a more reliable keyboard. Dare we even dream of the long-rumored Retina Display MacBook Air? No. Instead, there are new MacBook Pro models with bumped-up processors. OK, that’s not exactly fair. Apple has added a nice array of pro-centric improvements: More …
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Now that Sonos has added AirPlay 2 connectivity to its range of speakers, it’s time to get on board the Apple train. With AirPlay 2 you can now stream to a Sonos device straight from your iPhone, or ask Siri on an iPhone, iPad or HomePod to control your new Beam sound bar, for example. Unlike most Sonos setups, however, …
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You know those iPad ads where some young whippersnapper asks, “What’s a computer?” as if the PC is long dead? According to market research firm Gartner, the death of PC sales hasn’t yet come to pass. According to market research firms Gartner and IDC, worldwide PC shipments just grew for the first time in six years. Gartner and IDC’s numbers …
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With today’s arrival of updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models, Apple took the opportunity to strike an old favorite from its store: the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro. The 2015 model remained popular with many Mac users despite newer, faster MacBook Pros because it predates Apple’s switch to a new controversial butterfly keyboard design, the addition of a potentially frustrating Touch …
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The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. On Wednesday, after nearly four years of secrets and speculation, the $2.3 billion Magic Leap …
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Update, July 24: Apple has confirmed the widespread reports of throttled CPU performance on its 2018 MacBook Pro models, which have emerged since the laptops were released earlier this month. CPU clock speeds were slowed down as internal temperature spiked during high-load computing sessions. The company says the issue was due to a previously undiscovered software problem, and that it …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Magic Leap offers new details on its secretive and much-hyped augmented-reality headset and says it’ll release the gadget this summer. We compare this week’s hardware announcements, with Apple refreshing its MacBook Pro and Microsoft revealing the Surface Go tablet. Elon Musk jumps in to help the soccer team stuck in a cave in Thailand, …
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Hoping Apple’s refreshed MacBook Pro — just announced today — would include a keyboard that can’t be damaged by a little dust? (Seriously: There’ve been multiple lawsuits now.) Sadly, while the new 2018 MacBook Pro does have an updated third-generation keyboard, Apple tells CNET it doesn’t include any new engineering or tweaks to address the sticky key issue. Instead, the third-generation keyboard’s …
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